Gonzales was a Clinical Psychologist with the Student Veteran Health Program at San Francisco VA Medical Center, her family said.

Family friends said she got married a year ago and was seven months pregnant. She had plans to fly to Washington, D.C., this weekend to celebrate her wedding anniversary.

Her family, including husband T.J. Shushereba, gathered Saturday to mourn at their home in Napa. Friends have started a GoFundMe page to help her husband during this time.

“Today we mourn the loss of our beloved Jennifer: daughter, sister, wife, and mother-to-be. Jennifer and her colleagues died doing the work they were so passionate about – helping those in critical need,” her family said in a statement.

A photo of the happy couple on their wedding shows Gonzales smiling in a white wedding gown.

“Jennifer was adored by all who knew her and will always be remembered for her unconditional love and incredibly giving heart,” her family said.

Marjorie Morrison, the founder of PsychArmor, an online nonprofit, said Gonzales was “a brilliant psychologist,” who at such a young age, was the subject matter expert for the course she developed for the site. Her course, which she helped co-write for free, is used to train others on how to help college campuses prepare for veterans.

Morrison said the nonprofit plans on putting together a tribute for Gonzales.

After receiving her doctoral degree from Palo Alto University, Gonzales worked for a private counseling service provider offering individual and family counseling to deputies with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, according to Sgt. Richard Glennon.

“The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office sends our deepest condolences and prayers to the families and friends of all the victims of this terrible tragedy in Yountville. For any of our deputies and their family members who had the pleasure of working with Dr. Jennifer Gonzales it is especially personal and heartbreaking,” Glennon said in a statement.

Those who knew her took to social media to share their thoughts.

“Jenn was a sunny, beautiful, unfailingly kind little girl who grew up to be a sunny, beautiful unfailingly kind woman. She was completely hilarious, but never at anyone else’s expense. She loved her family ferociously,” said her friend of 26 years, Susan Hennessey on Twitter.

Jennifer Gray Golick, 42

This undated photo provided by Muir Wood Adolescent and Family Services shows The Pathway Home Clinical Director, Dr. Jennifer Golick, a victim of the veterans home shooting on Friday, March 9, 2018, in Yountville, Calif. Dr. Golick was killed by a former patient at The Pathway Home, a treatment program for veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Muir Wood Adolescent and Family Services via AP)

Golick joined Pathways in September as a clinical director, according to her Facebook page.

She had left her clinical director job at Muir Wood Adolescent and Family Services in Petaluma a year ago to be closer to home, and her husband and daughter in Napa, said Scott Sowle, who hired her at Muir Woods.

“She was the best I ever worked with; very caring and compassionate, and probably forever changed the lives of countless boys and their families. Many lives were saved because of her,” Sowle said.

Golick married her high school sweetheart, and called her daughter “the love of her life.” Sowle said he kept in contact with her and had recently had dinner with her a month ago. When he found out about the shooting in Yountville on Friday, he said he felt “paralyzing sadness.”

Golick graduated from UC Davis with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1998 and received a masters degree in counseling psychology at Sonoma State in 2000. She loved the San Francisco Giants. Photos on her Facebook page show a beaming Golick running marathons, wading through mud in the infamously difficult “Tough Mudder” obstacle races and at a Giants game.

Christine Loeber, 48

Loeber was a social worker and executive director at Pathway since September 2016. She’s seen in a photo posted on her Facebook page smiling with a group holding a large-sized check from the Rotary Club of Napa to Pathway Home. Some commented on the photo, sending condolences.

Yountville Mayor John Dunbar, who also sat on the board at Pathway, said he had just seen her Loeber a couple weeks ago to help plan upcoming events. He said Loeber showed “personal dedication” to her job. He said all three women brought humanity to their positions, and it might be impossible to fill their shoes.

According to an interview with the Associated Press, Loeber was planning a girls trip this weekend with her friend Maura Turner. Turner went to Loeber’s home Friday but there was no answer. She later learned about the hostage situation at Pathway. On Saturday afternoon, a potted orchid plant and bottle of white wine was on her front door.

This Sept. 2012 photo provided by Tom Turner shows Christine Loeber, a victim of the veterans home shooting on Friday, March 9, 2018 in Yountville, Calif, Loeber was executive director of the Pathway Home, a treatment program for veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Tom Turner via AP)

“She’s been a part of just about every significant event we’ve had as a couple,” said Tom Turner, Maura Turner’s husband. “Our wedding, our boys’ christenings. She’d always spend Labor Day weekend at our lake house in Maine. She was always so fun. On a rainy day, she’d be first to open up the Monopoly board and play with the kids.”

Tom Turner said had she still been alive, she would be helping others understand this tragedy.

“She’d have a better perspective than I would,” he told the Associated Press. “And she wouldn’t be as angry I am.”

Loeber graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a bachelor’s degree in communications. But friends said she decided social work was her calling and got her master’s degree from Boston College in social work in 2008. She took a job with the Veterans Administration in Boston and later the VA in Santa Rosa.

Tatiana Sanchez covers race, demographics and immigration for the Bay Area News Group. She got her start in journalism in the California desert, where she covered the marginalized immigrant communities of the eastern Coachella Valley. Before heading north, Sanchez spent a year as immigration reporter at the San Diego Union-Tribune, where she covered the region's multicultural communities, social justice topics and life on the U.S. -Mexico border. A Bay Area native, she received a master's in journalism from Columbia University. In 2017, Sanchez was part of a team of East Bay Times reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. She's based in San Jose.

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